Large-Eddy Simulations of Tropical Convective Systems, the Boundary Layer, and Upper Ocean Coupling.

摘要

Investigate tropical convection and upper ocean circulations on scales from 100 m to 200 km. Elucidate specifically how the ocean mixed layer responds to forcing from atmospheric convection such as wind and precipitation, and thus how surface fluxes depend on the history of convective events. Perform high-resolution coupled atmosphere-ocean numerical model simulations, whose fidelity is a benchmark for operational models and parameterizations. Insights gained from these simulations will be used to improve parameterizations used in operational scale models, and to refine hypotheses in collaboration with investigators working on observational field studies in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans.